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Nathan fell through the sky, the air quickly becoming hotter and hotter. He landed on the ground wincing in pain as his feet hit the ground. They had fallen quite a ways, he spotted Aaron on his back holding his leg.

"Aaron what's wrong?"
"I-I think landed wrong" Aaron grunted. "I messed up my leg pretty bad"

The portal now the size of an orange collapsed on itself and disappeared. Nathan looked around the nightosphere. Flames continually burst from craters in the ground, the air was unpleasant to breathe, the ground shook, and screams could be heard in the distance. "Come on" said Nathan.

"We'd have to be crazy to stay here." He tied his jacket around Aaron's ankle and put his arm over his shoulder.

"Wow" said Aaron. "It's beautiful, is it everything you ever imagined?" he said sarcastically. "Pretty much" answered Nathan.
"Let's just get out of here. How do we do that?"
"There's...a portal...in Hunson Abadeer's castle." Nathan panted. He'd been carrying Aaron for some time in this heat, sweat ran down his face, his shirt clung to his body.
"You okay?" asked Aaron.
"Let's...take a break" they sat down to rest. Nathan spotted a figure in the distance.
"Hey!" he yelled. "Over here! Can you give us a hand?"

The figure ran at them, Nathan gasped when he realized the small figure in the distance was a six foot horned demon. He'd never seen a demon before, it was a little exciting, but terrifying none the less.

"Whoa!" Nathan shouted as the demon tried to take a swing at him. "H-hold on, I just want some help"

The demon roared and swung savagely at him. Nathan ducked under the attack, and punched across the creature's jaw, sending his foot into his enemy's stomach for good measure. This seemed little more then to tick off the angry demon who swatted Nathan with a heavy hand knocking him down.

"Hey! Ugly! Over here!"
Aaron yelled waiving his arms. Seeing Aaron on his back unable to move as the weaker prey, the demon turned it's back on Nathan and advanced towards Aaron. Nathan panted sweat getting in his eyes. He charged the demon, tackling from behind trying to restrain it. The creature thrashed wildly, full of energy. It broke free slashing Nathan across the chest.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Nathan cried the pain amplified by the sweat and heat, he fell to his knees. For a moment the demon paused, unsure which of the two was more vulnerable. It turned towards Nathan, ignoring Aaron's shouts. Nathan crawled backward towards the edge as his horned attacker advanced. The demon swung in for the kill, Nathan dove under his legs and kicking the creature from behind.
"Wa...RAAAAAAAAH. " It yelled as it lost it's balance and fell into one of the fire pits Nathan had led it to. The demon screamed, his cries echoing in the pit until the nightosphere claimed him.

Nathan staggered back to Aaron.
"I thought the demons in the nightosphere weren't vicious" said Aaron.
"I guess...some of them are" said Nathan "I'm just gonna...I'm gonna lay down for a bit."
He collapsed, exhausted by his near death experience. Ignoring the pain on his chest he closed his eyes. "Are you alright?" asked Aaron. but it was too late Nathan was already asleep.

With Nathan exhausted, Aaron looked around the chaotic and shuddered. "I seriously hope we don't have to stay here for long." About half an hour passed. He wanted to let Nathan sleep a bit longer but the idea that any minute something could be coming to kill then scared him.

"Come on wake up, we can't just sit here." Nathan sat up slowly surprised at the pain in his chest. He looked at it as if seeing it for the first time. "Oh yeah" He stood and helped Aaron up.

"How long are we going to be here? We nearly got killed in the first five minutes." Asked Aaron"

"Hmm I dunno about a week"

"A week?!"

"Maybe more"

"More?! You're kidding me right?"

"No, this is a really big place. Plus don't forget it will be hard to cross being so dangerous. Don't forget, right now we're in a hell for demons."
"Come on" said Aaron "How are we gonna eat?"
"I'll figure that out as I go along."

They had traveled for about 20 minutes, eventually leaving the fire pits. The temperature became much less harsh. The nightosphere was unusually quiet at the moment, making them both nervous. Aaron spotted a small cave and they took shelter inside. Nathan's stomach growled

"Oh right I haven't had much to eat. Stay here I'll try and find something for us." "You want me to say here?" Aaron asked incredulously.

"Better than me having to carry you and protect you at the same time."
"Okay...you're right, I just hate how I'm stuck like this, making you do all the work."
"It's okay" said Nathan. "Just stay hidden and be careful"

Nathan walked carefully looking for signs of life. As he did he started to think about Ooo, and all of the cool things that awaited them if they could somehow make it out of this dump. He dropped off a small edge and peeked around the corner. A tall skinny demon was shoveling bananas into a big pile.

"Ugh, gross" said the demon taking special care not to touch them.

He then stood over the pile and strained himself, grunting as two bananas slowly squeezed out of his ears.
"Whew" he said. "That feels much better"

The skinny demon then entered a house made of jagged stones and shut the door. Nathan waited a while to make sure the demon didn't come back. He ran to the pile of bananas, reluctantly picking one up. Nathan sniffed the banana...it smelled normal enough. Nathan wasn't too eager to eat demon poop but he didn't have a lot of options, he just hoped they tasted like normal bananas. Scooping up the pile with his jacket, he ran back to the cave.

"Aaron?" he called.
"Yeah, I'm over here."
Nathan sighed in relief. "Here take a look." Nathan said dumping the bananas.
"Where did you get all this?" Aaron asked in shock.
"Er, I forget. Anyway let's dig in."

He peeled a banana but waited for Aaron to try it first. Aaron oblivious to the fact he was holding a demon turd, happily started eating. When Nathan saw Aaron didn't react to the taste he started eating as well. Soon they were full with plenty of bananas left.

"Okay" said Nathan "That settles it"
"What settles it?" asked Aaron.
"We gonna get used to this place. We nearly died last time we fought a demon, and that certainly won't be the last time we run into trouble here. I did not go through months of hard work just to die in this cruddy place."
Aaron laughed. "Alright then, let's do this!"